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Reviews Non-Fiction What Is life? by Ed Regis | Reviewed by Thomas Larson The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane | Reviewed by Laura M. Browning Poetry Big Pink Umbrella by Susan Millar DuMars | Reviewed by Grace Wells Little Boat by Jean Valentine | Reviewed by Shevi Berlinger Fiction Dervishes by Beth Helms | Reviewed by Frances Badgett The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon | Reviewed by Gregory Byala Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock | Reviewed by Shaindel Beers Lost Classics Stop-Time by Frank Conroy | Renewed by David M. Smith Spring 2008 Non-Fiction Reading Joyce by David Pierce | Reviewed by David M. Smith The Windows of Brimnes by Bill Holm | Reviewed by Thomas Larson The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott | Reviewed by Laura M. Browning Poetry The Dark Age by James Harpur | Reviewed by Grace Wells Blue and Red Things by Laura Solomon | Reviewed by Courtney MacNeil Fiction Surveillance by Jonathan Raban | Reviewed by Frances Badgett Lost Classics It Seems to Me by Heywood Broun | Renewed by Jeff McMahon 2007 Lost Classics Species of Spaces by Georges Perec | Renewed by David M. Smith Poetry At the Axis of Imponderables by Neil Carpathios | Reviewed by Shaindel Beers The Boy in the Ring by Dave Lordan | Reviewed by Grace Wells Complicated Pleasures by Billy Ramsell | Reviewed by Grace Wells Waterlight by Kathleen Jamie | Reviewed by Shaindel Beers Non-Fiction Staying Up Much Too Late by Gordon Theisen | Reviewed by Laura M. Browning Forging Fame by Craig Abbott | Reviewed by Thomas Larson Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Met by Danny Danziger | Reviewed by Laura M. Browning Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert | Reviewed by David M. Smith The Story of French by Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow | Reviewed by Jeff McMahon Fiction The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas-Llosa | Reviewed by Frances Badgett Petropolis by Anya Ulinich | Reviewed by Shevi Berlinger What I Was by Meg Rosoff | Reviewed by Linda Smith Exit Ghost by Philip Roth | Reviewed by Mike Frechette Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy | Reviewed by Michael Andrews Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo | Reviewed by Thea Brown The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer | Reviewed by M. Leigh Knittle Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee | Reviewed by Jeff McMahon Later, At the Bar: A Novel in Stories by Rebecca Barry | Reviewed by Shevi Berlinger Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje | Reviewed by Frances BadgettRegis.htmlMacfarlane.htmlDuMars.htmlChalupa.htmlChalupa.htmlHelms.htmlHemon.htmlPollock.htmlConroy.htmlPierce.htmlHolm.htmlBarcott.htmlHarpur.htmlSolomon.htmlRaban.htmlContradiction-3.htmlPerec.htmlCarpathios.htmlLordan.htmlRamsell.htmlJamie.htmlTheisen.htmlAbbott.htmlDanziger.htmlGilbert.htmlNadeau.htmlVargas-Llosa.htmlUlinich.htmlRosoff.htmlRoth.htmlPercy.htmlRusso.htmlSofer.htmlCoetzee.htmlBarry.htmlOndaatje.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12shapeimage_3_link_13shapeimage_3_link_14shapeimage_3_link_15shapeimage_3_link_16shapeimage_3_link_17shapeimage_3_link_18shapeimage_3_link_19shapeimage_3_link_20shapeimage_3_link_21shapeimage_3_link_22shapeimage_3_link_23shapeimage_3_link_24shapeimage_3_link_25shapeimage_3_link_26shapeimage_3_link_27shapeimage_3_link_28shapeimage_3_link_29shapeimage_3_link_30shapeimage_3_link_31shapeimage_3_link_32shapeimage_3_link_33shapeimage_3_link_34shapeimage_3_link_35
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